where function

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vorticitywo:
> Is there a function in Python analogous to the "where" function in
> IDL?

Python gives very elastic syntax, you can simply do:

data = [0,1,2,3,4,2,8,9]
print [pos for pos, el in enumerate(data) if el==2]

Bye,
bearophile